Notebooks out: five wonderfully well bred newcomers to watch on Sunday

Ridgeway Avenue
2yo ch c Kitten's Joy-Trensa (Giant's Causeway)
Bred by Helen K Groves Revokable Trust
Trained by James Ferguson for Lloyd Williams

Declared for 12.15 York

This full-brother to Hawkbill is trained by James Ferguson, whose father John signed the docket for the Coral-Eclipse and Dubai Sheema Classic hero for $350,000 as a yearling at Keeneland on behalf of Godolphin.

Ridgeway Avenue went unsold when bidding reached just $145,000 at last year's Keeneland September Yearling Sale but a private deal was presumably reached as he is now set to sport the silks of multiple Melbourne Cup-winning owner Lloyd Williams.

The pair, both by Kitten's Joy out of the Grade 3-placed Giant's Causeway mare Trensa, are actually half-brothers to another top-level winner in Free Drop Billy, who scored by four lengths over Bravazo in the 2017 Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland.

Harajuku
2yo b f Deep Impact-Phaenomena (Galileo)
Bred by Flaxman Stables Ireland
Trained by Andre Fabre for the Niarchos family

Declared for 1.00 at Chantilly (2.00 local time)

Deep Impact is represented in Europe again by Harajuku, one of two newcomers in a field of nine for a seven-furlong maiden at Chantilly.

Harajuku's owners and breeders the Niarchos family have already tasted big-race success in France with the late Japanese supersire, as their colours were carried to victory by Study Of Man in the Prix du Jockey Club. Deep Impact's other Group 1 winners in Europe are the locally trained Beauty Parlour, Fancy Blue and Saxon Warrior, as well as Japanese raider A Shin Hikari.

Harajuku is bred on the same cross – Deep Impact over Galileo – as Saxon Warrior as she is out of Phaenomena, a winning sister to Nightime, heroine of the Irish 1,000 Guineas and dam of the all-conquering Ghaiyyath.

Phaenomena is also the dam of recent Japanese Grade 2 winner King Of Koji, a son of Lord Kanaloa.

Pomelo
2yo b f Dubawi-Emulous (Dansili)
Bred by Juddmonte Farms
Trained by Ralph Beckett for Khalid Abdullah

Declared for 1.05 Newbury

The seven-furlong fillies' novice stakes has attracted a field of six newcomers so pedigree study will be all important, and none in the race has as striking a page as this Juddmonte homebred.

Pomelo is by Dubawi and is the fourth foal out of Emulous, a daughter of Dansili who won seven races for Dermot Weld including when trouncing Together and Misty For Me to take the Matron Stakes in 2011.

Emulous has already produced a smart performer in the Beckett-trained Kingman filly Desirous, while the cross of Dansili over Dubawi has previously come up trumps with top-class runners Nezwaah, Glorious Journey and Time Test.

Another daughter of a Group 1 winner in the race is Cheveley Park Stud homebred Verbena, by Lethal Force out of Fillies' Mile heroine Red Bloom. She is in the care of Clive Cox.

Mujbar
2yo b c Muhaarar-Madany (Acclamation)
Bred by Shadwell
Trained by Charlie Hills for Hamdan Al Maktoum

Declared for 1.40 Newbury

This Muhaarar colt is the fifth foal out of one of Shadwell's best young broodmares – Madany, a winning daughter of Acclamation from the immediate family of Group 1 performers Precieuse and Scottish.

The dam's first produce was Massaat, a son of Teofilo who won the Hungerford Stakes and was runner-up in the Dewhurst and 2,000 Guineas, and her third offspring was Eqtidaar, the Invincible Spirit colt who struck in the Commonwealth Cup in Royal Ascot.

His rivals in the six-furlong novice stakes for colts and geldings include another choicely bred Muhaarar colt in Aesthete, a half-brother to Big Orange who ran a fair fourth on debut for the Gold Cup winner's trainer Michael Bell.

April Showers
2yo b f Galileo-Butterfly Cove (Storm Cat)
Bred by Coolmore
Trained by Donnacha O'Brien for Coolmore

Declared for 2.00 Curragh

Donnacha O'Brien has been entrusted with one of the most supremely well bred two-year-old fillies owned by Coolmore this season, in the shape of this sister to top-flight winners Ballydoyle and Misty For Me.

Misty For Me became Coolmore's first Group 1-winning filly by their talismanic sire Galileo of their own when she landed the Moyglare Stud Stakes and Prix Marcel Boussac at two and the Irish 1,000 Guineas and Pretty Polly Stakes at three.

She has emulated her own dam – Butterfly Cove, a Storm Cat half-sister to champion Fasliyev – by producing two Group 1 winners by the same sire at stud, throwing Roly Poly and US Navy Flag to War Front.

Five-pound claimer Gavin Ryan takes the ride on April Showers, who has a tough first assignment up against the Aidan O'Brien-trained Deep Impact filly Snowfall. She looked sure to run well at the Curragh last time but stumbled when making her challenge.

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